SCIENTISTS RESCUED AFTER THREE YEARS IN THE ANTARCTIC
LONDON, January 31.—Two of the five British scientists who have been marooned on Stonington Island in the Antarctic for more than three years, were rescued by aeroplane today. A Canadian pilot made a hazardous flight from a base in the Argentine Islands to Stonington Island, the most southerly British base, landing in a fiord about eight miles from the camp on Stonington Island in Marguerite Bay. The aeroplane was unable to touch down on a prepared pool near the base because of ice. The two men rescued made a three-hour pull through a maze of icefloes in a small boat to where the aeroplane had landed. . Because of approaching ice, which threatened to block the take-off, the aeroplane was unable to wait long enough to rescue the others. The rescued men, both of whom were fit, were welcomed back to the fescue ship John Biscoe by Sir Miles Clifford, Governor of the Falkland Islands.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1950, Page 7
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